As people began to travel and explore more of the world, geographical maps started to come together. Dating back to the 6th century B.C.E., the Imago Mundi, most commonly known as the Babylonian ...

The Mappa Mundi, completed by monk Fra Mauro in 1459, is the compendium of all the geographical knowledge of the time and is arguably the greatest medieval map of the world. Video by Anna ...

In 1882, the British Museum acquired a clay tablet that had been discovered in southern Iraq, not far from the ancient city ...

The secrets held within the Babylonian tablet, considered the world's oldest map, have been deciphered. Dated from 2600 to ...